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1948 YEARS
2023 JANUARY 6, 2023 | TEVET 13, 5783 | VOLUME 75, NUMBER 8
A Jewish woman
will now hold
powerful and
prized job in
Arizona politics
SHANNON LEVITT | STAFF WRITER
A llie Bones, the Jewish woman who is stepping
into Arizona’s second most powerful job as the
governor’s chief of staff, never thought that she would
have to concern herself with the Arizona-Mexico
border, school vouchers or the dangerously low level
of the Colorado River — at least not as anything but a
citizen of the state.

Since Jan. 2, when Gov. Katie Hobbs was sworn in,
officially taking the reins from outgoing Gov. Doug
Ducey, those are the types of things filling her days,
and often her nights and weekends.

As Hobbs’ right hand, Bones will manage and oversee
policy development, coordinate with state agencies and
work closely with the governor to pass her agenda.

Arizona’s water concerns will be just one of several
priorities given that Hobbs “has made it very clear that
she does not intend to continue to kick this can down
the road — it’s been kicked as far as it can be and we
need to address it,” Bones told Jewish News.

“We’ll be bringing all the players together to
try to tackle this from a holistic perspective and a
statewide perspective,” she said, surmising that Hobbs’
collaborative leadership style could be the thing to bring
people together and find solutions.

Bones respects that style of leadership, especially as
it’s one she shares, something she developed over her
long career in social work. That’s where she started — a
far cry from where she is now.

Bones’ first boots-on-the-
$1.50 Jewish News turns 75; still gives
‘Jewish perspective’ on issues touching
the Jewish community
MALA BLOMQUIST | MANAGING EDITOR
O n Jan. 15, 1948, The Phoenix Jewish News became
the official publication of the Jewish Community
Council (the precursor to the Jewish Federation of
Greater Phoenix) and the newspaper for the roughly
2,000 members of the Jewish community in the area.

“What the founders may not have anticipated is that
the moment each issue is published, it becomes part
of a historical record. Our pages are filled with stories
not only about our community and its members, but
also about our relationships with the many communi-
ties with which we interact, the cities, state and nation
in which we live, Jews in Israel and throughout the
world,” wrote Florence “Flo” Newmark Eckstein,
publisher of the Jewish News of Greater Phoenix from
1981 to 2013, in an article in the May 16, 2008 issue
celebrating the paper’s 60th anniversary.

Many of the topics that fill the pages of the Jewish
News today are the same as those that Eckstein
described 15 years ago — and the same as when the
paper launched 75 years ago.

In 1948, the four-page paper was published every
month except June, July and August by the Publications
Committee of the Phoenix Jewish Community Council.

M.B. “Bud” Goldman, Jr.

was committee chairman
SEE JN TURNS 75 , PAGE 3
The front page of the first issue of the Jewish News in 1948.

COURTESY OF JEWISH NEWS
Top scientist
Nancy Eisenberg is on Research.com’s list as top female scientists in
Arizona — and 133rd globally. See page 19.

COURTESY OF ANDY DELISLE
SEE ALLIE BONES, PAGE 2
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